The Brandon board of directors has said that it has given permission for the management team to investigate a Buy-Out.
30.12.2005
CTE has managed to finalise its deal to acquire the Bizzocchi subsidiary of the Effer group, after a few hiccoughs.
29.12.2005
Harsco, the Owner of SGB and Hünnebeck has completed the purchase of Brambles steel mill services group.
Mr. Henry Marchetta will represent France as president of the European Construction Equipment manufacturers association, CECE.
28.12.2005
Ramirent AB, the Swedish affiliate of Finnish based Ramirent plc, has agreed a sale and leaseback deal on 18 of its Swedish locations.
Doornbos Equipment, the crane, access and telehandler rental company of Rotterdam has taken delivery of two Genie Z-135/70.
22.12.2005
Terex will launch the AC55-1 in April at Intermat in Paris, the -1 includes a new telescoping system with some significant capacity increases and a lighter weight.
Spider, a division of SafeWorks, provided suspended access and rigging services to erect a 10 storey Nike banner in Cleveland.
21.12.2005
Manitou is to replace its popular MT13 range of telehandlers with a new MT14 in 2006.
Gerard Deprez CEO of Loxam, has proposed an inaugural meeting of a new European Rental Association, as proposed by him at APEX this September.
We have a received the first photograph of the recently announced Grove GMK4080-1, 80 tonne All Terrain.
Skyjack will launch two new compact Rough terrain scissors at the rental show in Orlando this February.
20.12.2005
HBG construction recently allowed local firement to use a tower crane for training.
Genie Industries has appointed Jim Otley as managing director for Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, replacing Jacques Catinot.
Arcomet, the Belgian based tower crane company has announced its spending plans for the UK, USA and beyond.
19.12.2005
IPAF has appointed Gil Male, currently principal specialist inspector and head of the engineering plant group at the UK’s HSE, as its technical officer.
Thieves used a truck and loader crane to steal a £3 million Henry Moore sculpture last Thursday night. The crane was stolen from Roydon Essex an hour before the theft.
18.12.2005
UpRight parent, the Griffin group, has reached agreement to start construction of a new power station.
Take a look at this picture of largely Dutch crane people from around 1981. How many can you name?
17.12.2005
Liebherr launched its new Houston facility with an open day late last month.
16.12.2005
Bronto lift handed over a new 90 metre truck mounted lift to Mateco in Stuttgart today.
15.12.2005
KCI Konecranes has won an order to supply eight cranes to Mittal steel in Poland,
The biggest tower crane ever erected in Spain has started work on a new skyscraper in Madrid.
14.12.2005
German crane company, MaxiKraft has ordered 73 new cranes, the largest order from a German company in over 10 years